20: Henry Zhang - Lessons From Moving To Canada, Founding A Startup, and Interning Everywhere
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This week we talked to Henry, a 4th year EngSci Robotics student who shared his interesting story of growing a lot over the course of his undergraduate studies, from starting a student learning startup and learning from failure. He had a lot of interesting insights he shared with us!
2:00 - coming to Canada in high school
6:25 - differences in how Chinese international students approach internships/career things
8:00 - learning to code
16:10 - What the process of raising seed funding, talking to 100 investors, mostly in China, growing to 60 people
19:00 - Running out of money
28:30 - Going Cali or bust, applying to tech and management consulting
35:43 - technical interviews, and how failing management consulting interviews helped
36:46 - working at Wish, the “typical silicon valley startup”, making data driven decisions
40:30 - 40:30 - seeing old friends and being back at school again
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